Soldiers Cut Off Access to Large Areas as Hospitals Are Overwhelmed With Patients

Liberia and Sierra Leone trucked in soldiers to quarantine whole sections of their respective nations Thursday, a dramatic response to the collapse of hospitals and clinics in the most Ebola-infected zones.

In Liberia, soldiers and police at checkpoints began halting all road travel entering and leaving eight of the nation's 15 counties, said Information Minister Lewis Brown. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf had declared a state of emergency late Wednesday for the coming 90 days, saying her government "will institute...